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Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program

Meller, Marian; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Many governments in developing countries implement programs that aim to address nutrional failures in early childhood, yet credible evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions is scant. This paper evaluates the impact of a large-scale, government-run, food fortification program on child...

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Seeds of hope: Assessing the effect of development aid on the reduction of child mortality

Burguet, Roberto; Soto, Marcelo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

The Millennium Declaration (2000) set as one of its targets a substantial reduction in child mortality. This paper studies whether the massive increase in development aid can account for part of the reduction in child mortality observed in developing countries since the year 2000. To do so, we...

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Measuring the Child Mortality Impact of Official Aid for Fighting Infectious Diseases, 2000-2010

Burguet, Roberto; Soto, Marcelo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

Aid for fighting infectious and parasitic diseases has had a statistically significant role in the under-five mortality reduction in the last decade. Point estimates indicate a country average reduction of 1.4 deaths per thousand under fives live-born attributable to aid at its average level in...

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Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's Early Rise to Riches

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large – varying by as much as a factor of 35 across countries (Hall and Jones 1999). These differentials mostly reflect the "Great Divergence" (Sam Huntingon) – the fact that Western Europe and former European colonies grew rapidly...

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Missing Girls in Spain

González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

I document extremely son-biased sex ratios at birth among Asian-born parents in Spain. Using data on the universe of registered births in Spain during 2007- 2012, I show that there are 117 boys per 100 girls born to Indian parents, compared with a national average of 107 boys per 100 girls. The...

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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is it Good to be Born in Bad Times?

Aparicio, Ainhoa; González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …

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How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

Europeans restricted their fertility long before other parts of the world did so. By raising the marriage age of women … up to 40%. We analyze the rise of this ﬁrst socio-economic institution in history that limited fertility through delayed … Black Death thus set into motion a virtuous circle of higher wages and fertility decline that underpinned Europe’s high per …

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The Impact of Scheduling Birth Early on Infant Health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

We take advantage of a natural experiment to provide new, credible evidence on the health consequences of scheduling births early for non-medical reasons. In May 2010, the Spanish government announced that a 2,500-euro universal “baby bonus” would stop being paid to babies born after...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

González, Libertad - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …

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Do You Work or Do You Study? Children’s Work in a Comparative Historical Perspective

Camps, Enriqueta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

In this paper we compare two historical scenarios very different one to each other both in institutional and geographical terms. What they have in common is the situation of relative poverty of most of the population. On the one side we are dealing with historical industrializing Catalonia in...

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